(n.) The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a 27-page statement included in the report, the Rt Rev Keith Sinclair, bishop of Birkenhead, said he feared it risked undermining "the discipleship and pastoral care of many faithful Christians" and leading the church into "cultural captivity".
(2) But we’re just a discipleship ministry, we’re not a reparative therapy group in any way… “We’re just a discipleship group that helps people to deepen their Christian walk and their faith and those are the kind of questions that I think would come up in any sort of accountability group that men would be doing.” We have had people … that have desired to have families and be married and some … have succeeded in accomplishing that Ricky Chelette, Living Hope Asked if he believed some of the people he has worked with have changed from being gay to straight, Chelette said: “If you mean by ‘straight’ they’re no longer doing the gay practices that they may have been doing before as in hooking up with people or having sex with other people of the same gender, yes, we’ve had people that have done that.
(3) A few years later, we had to close our live-in discipleship houses, but I kept in touch with people afterwards and was dismayed to see what happened.
(4) He also left same-sex marriage unmentioned, hours before Kim Davis was scheduled to accept a “Cost of Discipleship award”.